THELOGICALINDIAN - On June 1 the American media aggregation that provides bartering acclimate forecasts Accuweather appear it is tethering acclimate abstracts to blockchain technology by hosting an API3 Airnode The aggregation appear that it is accommodating with blockchain answer provider API3 and Web API operators will be able to admission Accuweathers onchain acclimate data
Accuweather Exec Believes Blockchain Weather Data Can Make ‘Lasting Impacts Through a Range of Industries’
According to the aggregation Accuweather, the close is hosting its own API3 answer bulge in adjustment to accommodate a “seamless Web3 adhesive that enables Web API providers to action Accuweather’s world-class acclimate abstracts anon onchain.” The account will accord decentralized appliance (dapp) operators the adeptness to admission acclimate abstracts via the API3 Airnode infrastructure. Both Accuweather and API3 accept that the collaborative accomplishment will empower bodies with authentic acclimate predictions and warnings angry to storms.
“The appliance and use of Accuweather’s acclimate data, leveraged apart on an API oracle, has the abeyant to accomplish abiding impacts through a ambit of industries and alike in arising markets,” Paul Lentz, Accuweather’s chief carnality admiral of business development said in a account beatific to Bitcoin.com News. “As one of the aboriginal above acclimate abstracts and anticipation providers to access the blockchain space, we accept a different appearance into the appeal and acceptance of the exchange which puts us on a able basement as we analyze new opportunities for advance and how we can bigger serve users.”
Accuweather Partnered With Chainlink Last Year, API3 Co-Founder Thinks There’s a Great Need for Reliable Blockchain-Powered Weather Data
Blockchain and acclimate abstracts concepts accept been about for a few years now and Accuweather revealed aftermost year it had partnered with Chainlink to accommodate acclimate abstracts and insights onchain. The American media aggregation explained at the time that it would be hosting a Chainlink answer node. The blockchain Bitcoinsv (BSV) hosts a acclimate appliance alleged Weathersv. An appliance alleged Dclimate additionally provides onchain acclimate metrics and calls itself a decentralized arrangement for altitude data. Heikki Vänttinen, the co-founder of API3, believes there’s a abundant charge for reliable acclimate data.
“As bequest organizations and new projects akin about-face to blockchain technology to enhance or innovate processes, the charge for cellophane and reliable abstracts has added tremendously, and Accuweather is a prime archetype of charge to bringing amount to the decentralized amplitude – beeline from the source, anon to dapps” Vänttinen said on Wednesday. “We attending advanced to seeing the absolute impacts of the Accuweather API beyond all sectors, from allowance to conscientious adventures in the metaverse.”
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